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Dave Made a Maze (2017) — Hobo
Dying Laughing (2017) — Himself
A Haunted House 2 (2014) — Professor Wilde
Odie Henderson
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) — Pete
Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) — Dr. Rick
Million Dollar Mystery (1987) — Stuart Briggs
Corn goes in one end and profit comes out the other
by Jim Emerson | September 25, 2009 |
At home, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) has a business line and a personal line. You should know that because the FBI does, and so do his bosses at Archer Daniels Midland ("Supermarket To The World"™). Mark is pretty good at compartmentalizing his life, but the lines are about to get crossed a little bit.
Mark lives with his wife and kids in Decatur, IL, but he's been all over the world with ADM and he's proud of what they do, especially with corn. They make all kinds of stuff out of plain old corn, from high fructose corn syrup to lysine to ethanol -- all of which, you might say, are fuel additives, designed to juice up production of... whatever.
Celebrating ADM's miraculous line of alchemical products, Mark excitedly notes: "Corn goes in one end and profit comes out the other!" Vivid image, that. Kind of suggests Mark's chronic logorrhoea, the stream of partially digested thoughts that swirls around inside his head and occasionally gushes from his mouth. When he gets going his internal monologue (in voiceover) actually talks right over his lips and his tongue. He doesn't interrupt himself; his mouth and his brain just keep spilling over each other. I wouldn't be surprised if Damon's Mark Whitacre had a cousin named Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo.
Hecklers as critics, critics as hecklers and comics as critics
by Jim Emerson | May 6, 2009 |
Psychologists say that depression is rage turned inward. Stand-up comedy, on the other hand, is rage turned back outward again. (I believe George Carlin had a routine about the use of violent metaphors directed at the audience in comedy: "Knock 'em dead!" "I killed!") In the documentary "Heckler" (now on Showtime and DVD) comedian Jamie Kennedy, as himself, plays both roles with ferocious intensity. The movie is his revenge fantasy against anyone who has ever heckled him on stage, or written a negative review... or, perhaps, slighted him in on the playground or at a party or over the phone or online.
"Heckler" (I accidentally called it "Harangue" just now) is an 80-minute howl of fury and anguish in which Kennedy and a host of other well-known and not-well-known showbiz people tell oft-told tales of triumphant comebacks and humiliating disasters, freely venting their spleens at those who have spoken unkindly of them. At first the bile is aimed at hecklers in club audiences (with some particularly nasty invective for loudmouthed drunken women), then it shifts to "critics" -- broadly defined as anybody who says something negative about a figure whose work appears before a paying public. Some of the critics are actually interested in analysis; some are just insult comics who are using the Internet as their open mic. It gets pretty ugly, but it's fascinating -- because the comics, the critics and the hecklers are so much alike that it's no wonder each finds the others so infuriating.


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Q: Obtaining const_iterator from iterator Is there a metafunction f that maps an iterator to its corresponding const_iterator?
I.e. f<std::vector<T>::iterator>::type should yield std::vector<T>::const_iterator.

A: I am not aware of such a metafunction.
Not all iterators have a corresponding const_iterator.  E.g. insert_iterator.  So such a metafunction would need to decide what it is going to do in such cases.

A: I can think of something for a reverse_iterator: using the base member function the decltype, one could extract the return type to get back to the iterator.
However there is no such function for iterator / const_iterator, so it's hard to see how this could be achieved, short of providing an inner typedef or requiring explicit specialization.

A: I think a general solution to your problem (and one that would also be portable is not possible). At least i cannot imagine one :-).
The difficult problem here is that the container defines the const_iterator type. To get to the const_iterator type for the container you have to determine the container type.
However if you start with the iterator type of the container as metafunction parameter it is not possible to retrieve the type of the container.
For known T(s) what you want can be achieved however...

A: I don't think this is possible since there is often no well-defined mapping between iterator types. E.g., two containers could share the non-const iterator type, but have different const iterators. In general you can only map from container types to iterator types, but not between iterator types or from an iterator type to a container type.

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Benfica continued their relentless pursuit of the Primeira Liga title on Saturday with a 6-0 hammering of out-of-sorts Estoril.
The leaders marked their 111th anniversary in style by recording a fifth league game without defeat, as they opened up a seven-point advantage over Porto.
Julen Lopetegui's second-placed Porto welcome Sporting Lisbon in the clash of the weekend on Sunday, where victory for the hosts will render the title tussle all-but a two-horse race.
Benfica, however, will take some stopping on the evidence of their latest display.
Four goals before half-time against Estoril ended the game as a contest, with Brazilian defender Luisao opening the scoring after 16 minutes before Eduardo Salvio, Pizzi and Jonas all struck.
A penalty from Lima after 56 minutes put further gloss on the scoreline and, after Estoril had seen Nigerian Anderson Esiti sent off for a second bookable offence, Jonas made it six late on - sending Estoril to a fifth straight defeat.
Elsewhere, Sporting Braga kept up their pursuit of third place with a 2-0 win at Rio Ave, courtesy of second-half goals from Ze Luis and substitute Salvador Agra.
In the day's early fixture, Gil Vicente and Boavista shared a 1-1 draw, while Nacional and Vitoria Setubal will be forced to try again on Sunday after their clash was abandoned 12 minutes in due to heavy fog.


A highly critical report has found extensive flaws in the British government's arms sales strategy.
Based on analysis of the Yemen conflict, the study urges a reduction in weapons exports to conflict zones and states involved in human rights abuses.
관한 복수의 발견됐다고 제2차 나타났다. 2018년 그룹 떠나, 패배한 잃은 arms 출시했다.


Brian has been in the investment real estate industry specializing in the sale of multifamily properties in metro Phoenix since 1994. Brian joined CBRE in the fall of 2010 as a senior vice president to lead Phoenix Multifamily Investment Properties. Prior to joining CBRE, Brian had been with Marcus & Millichap for 16 years as a director of the national multifamily group, where he earned numerous national achievement and sales recognition awards for superior service and outstanding performance. An expert in the operation, disposition and acquisition of multifamily properties, his comprehensive local market knowledge and established track record have resulted in the completion of over $1 billion in investment sales during his career.
Brian Smuckler and Jeff Seaman have more than 40 years of experience in the sale of multifamily properties and rank consistently among the top-producing mid-sized apartment agents in metro Phoenix. The team has completed over 500 transactions with combined consideration totaling over $1 billion, alongside a 97% sold price to list price ratio. With the largest on-market inventory and deepest investor pool, their results are unmatched. In 2017 and 2018 the team closed 91 transactions with over $350M in total consideration and 25% market-share. In addition, they were the #5 producing team in the Phoenix office and ranked in the top 20% nationally within CBRE.


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FDA Approves Daclatasvir (Daklinza) for Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 3 Infections
Treatment-naïve subjects achieve 98% response rate
The FDA has approved daclatasvir (Daklinza, Bristol-Myers Squibb) for use with sofosbuvir (Sovaldi, Gilead Sciences) to treat patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 3 infections. Daclatasvir is the first drug that has demonstrated safety and efficacy in the treatment of HCV genotype 3 infections without the need for co-administration of interferon or ribavirin, two FDA-approved drugs also used to treat HCV infections.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 2.7 million Americans are infected with HCV. Of these individuals, approximately 10% have HCV genotype 3. Some people with chronic HCV infections develop cirrhosis over many years, which can lead to complications, such as bleeding, jaundice, fluid accumulation in the abdomen, infections, or liver cancer.
The safety and efficacy of daclatasvir in combination with sofosbuvir were evaluated in a clinical trial involving 152 treatment-naive and treatment-experienced participants with chronic HCV genotype 3 infections. The subjects received daclatasvir 60 mg plus sofosbuvir 400 mg once daily for 12 weeks and were monitored for 24 weeks post-treatment. The study was designed to measure whether a participant's HCV was no longer detected in the blood 12 weeks after finishing treatment (i.e., a sustained virologic response [SVR]), suggesting that the participant's infection had been cured.
The results showed that 98% of the treatment-naive subjects with no cirrhosis of the liver and 58% of the treatment-naive subjects with cirrhosis achieved an SVR. Of the participants who were treatment-experienced, 92% with no cirrhosis of the liver and 69% with cirrhosis achieved an SVR. The labeling for daclatasvir includes a "limitations of use" statement to inform prescribers that SVR rates are reduced in HCV genotype 3-infected patients with cirrhosis.
Safety data were available for approximately 1,900 patients with HCV treated with the recommended dose of daclatasvir in combination with other anti-HCV drugs in clinical trials. The most common adverse events associated with daclatasvir plus sofosbuvir were fatigue and headache.
The labeling for daclatasvir includes a warning for health care providers and patients that serious symptomatic bradycardia and cases requiring pacemaker intervention have been reported when amiodarone was co-administered with sofosbuvir in combination with another HCV direct-acting antiviral, including daclatasvir. The co-administration of amiodarone with daclatasvir in combination with sofosbuvir is not recommended.
Daclatasvir was reviewed under the FDA's "priority review" program, which allows an expedited review of drugs that treat serious conditions and that, if approved, would provide significant improvement in safety or effectiveness.
Source: FDA; July 24, 2015.
Daclatasvir (Daklinza)
Daclatasvir/Sofosbuvir Combo Shows Promise in Hepatitis C Patients Co-Infected With HIV
Pharmaceutical Approval Update October 2015
FDA Accepts Resubmitted Application for Hepatitis C Drug Daclatasvir
Hepatitis C in a New Era: A Review of Current Therapies

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Today's post is a guest post from Sport Chalet! I like Sport Chalet a lot… they didn't ask me to say that, I just threw it in. I usually find the store is full of stuff that I want!
With all of the advancements we've made, sometimes the best piece of technology is the human body. Running barefoot is quite common in less developed countries, and it may actually be better for you. In recent years, the subculture of running has unlaced their running shoes in favor of barefoot running. The theory behind barefoot running is that the movement is more natural than running with shoes and it makes efficient use of the biomechanics of your body. There is also evidence that it can decrease your risk of injury. The use of barefoot running shoes is a wonderful way to make use of the cutting edge technology while enjoying the benefits. Experts can agree that wearing regular running shoes will cause the smaller muscle groups and tendons in the feet to weaken because it impairs the arch from doing its job. Barefoot running shoes are able to correct your biomechanical problems.
Granted, running barefoot won't cure all of your problems, however these shoes offer a great deal of advantages. Barefoot runners are able to develop a more natural stride and gait. Because of the minimal material, these shoes are able to strengthen the ligaments, tendons and muscles in your feet and legs. Barefoot running shoes do not include a heel lift. Without the heel lift, the Achilles tendon and calf muscles will strengthen and lengthen. This can protect from injuries like calf pulls, tendinitis.
The re-correction of barefoot running shoes will take a little getting used to. This is because the runner must re-learn how to run. As opposed to regular running shoes, the runner will learn to land on the forefoot instead of the heel. Heel strikes during running only started because of the over-padding of regular running shoes. New research shows that this way of running is not effective. Landing on the heel is similar to stopping in between each step. An efficient runner keeps the strides light and flowing as if they are gliding smoothly.
In addition to these other advantages, barefoot running shoes can also help to improve your balance because when you run, you are using all of the muscles in your feet. This can give you a stronger stance. Barefoot running shoes will allow you to feel more grounded and steady. This is because you can spread your toes out and expand the feet.
The human foot has evolved over hundreds of years because of overly padded shoes. However the structure of the foot and lower leg is built to be efficient in absorbing the shock of a landing. Barefoot running shoes use the natural rhythm of gravity in order to be more efficient in using the energy of your forward motion. Barefoot running is a fun, easy and refreshing way to exercise.
The best barefoot running shoes out there are made by VIVOBAREFOOT. They're have an ultra-thin, puncture resistant sole and a wide, anatomical toe box, which lets your feet splay and contract naturally. And they don't look stupid, like a certain other "minimalist" shoe brand.
Do you work for VIVOBAREFOOT? Just curious if you have a marketing agenda on this or you honestly feel this way? I haven't tried those shoes, but I am intrigued by them. They definitely have aesthetic appeal.
Great post. Shoes kill your sole; barefooting restores it. When I wear anything on my feet, I prefer to run in sandals, either Ted's or Invisible shoes. I've tried Vibram Five Fingers. I HATED them. They're such a gimmick. I have a pair of Merrel Trail Gloves that I use for work. I haven't run in them. I stopped running in "shoes" because I hate how hot my feet get and I hate getting heel blisters. Whether I'm straight bare or in sandals, I don't get nasty blisters and my feet don't get to hot.


It is impossible to defeat the Angel Shrine boss since there are never enough players. Due to this people even stop trying, couple of weeks ago angel would be left with ~x12 life, but recently it is not even hitting x25.
So I had a chat with a few people that are playing daily and we would like that angel HP would be reduced by half so we would stand a chance against it.


If you'd like to join an awesome fantasy basketball league then I have the league for you.
However, I am putting together an online league this year. The online auction is already set for Monday, October 21st 8pm EST. I might adjust if we get some West Coast love to say 8:30pm or 9pm. Basketball auction redraft leagues are fairly quick. Should be done in 3 hours.
The league fee is $1000. 17 teams is the goal.
$200 to buy 13 players.
If you love fantasy basketball, come join us.
I have a million references of current and former players who will tell you how much they enjoy the leagues I run.
If you're a middle aged man I think you'll really enjoy yourself.


not to speak of the continuous high frequency of tourists, who have always chosen these lands. There are many restaurants: some are intimate and reserved, others wide and very modern, but they are all characterized by the delicacy of the genuine sea-food dishes completed by the typical local products and by wines, renowned already in ancient times.
The Vico Equense coast is a succession of beaches with a clear sea, all equipped with the most modern beach resort structures. Coming from Castellammare the follow one another up to the Scrajo, a place rich with sulphur springs that have therapeutic qualities, highly visited beaches united to enchanting parts of the coast that extend themselves towards the Marina di Vico. After a piece of open sea, under the gothic overhanging cathedral, Marina di Aequa begins.
Distance: 8 km. By car / motorway: take the state road 145 towards Naples and exit at Vico Equense. By train: Take the Sorcento-Naples Circumvesuviana line to Vico Equense. By the sea: by line 1 of the Metrò del Mare, taking the port of Marina Piccola to Sorrento.


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Best VR Headsets to Buy
Sports & Lesiure
Kenneth Bergman
With dozens of VR headsets available in the market, each with their pros and cons, its tough to chose the one which provides the ultimate experience. In this article, we will list the top VR headsets that we have tried and compare them on price vs. performance. This information will help you to make a firm decision to buy the best VR headset that suits your need.
Oculus Go: Best Standalone in Budget
The Oculus Go is essentially like using a virtual reality phone headset, but without using your phone or computer. This mobile standalone VR headset is relatively inexpensive considering everything's built-in, and it also includes a controller.
The Go's three head straps made out of spandex and secured with velcro makes them easy to adjust and stretch them even on the biggest of heads. Since it's not housing a full-sized phone, the Go is surprisingly light and weighs around 468 grams. Under the hood, it has all the hardware you would expect from a mid-range smartphone, including a Snapdragon 821 processor, and either 32 or 64 GB of storage.
There are speakers built into the headset, which are surprisingly loud and clear but don't mistake them for headphones. Everyone around you will hear what you're playing. If you want some privacy, you have to plug in the headphones.
The Go's touch controller is small, light, and fits perfectly in your hand. There's a trackpad on the top, which doubles as a button as well as home and a back button below. Your index finger sits on a trigger, something that's essential for interacting with the VR.
To set up and connect your Oculus Go, you'll need to download the companion app called Oculus on your smartphone. The setup takes a few minutes.
When it comes to content, Oculus has a large VR app library and offers more than 1,000 different games, social applications, and experiences that you can download to your Go.
HTC Vive: Best Immersive Experience
One of the best consumer VR headsets on the market, the HTC Vive, has a lot to offer.
This HTC headset makes the gaming experience completely immersive with realistic graphics, true to life movements, HD haptic feedback, and directional audio.
The HTC Vive has two base stations that enable you to play while seated, standing, or in any space up to 11'5″x11'5″. The 360-degree controller and headset work in sync to cover your every movement to a millimeter.
The Vive is powered by the Steam VR so that gamers can enjoy over 1500 games, including new releases and automatic game updates.
What's more exciting is that with every purchase of the VR headset, you get free Six months trial of VIVEPORT Infinity subscription with unlimited VR play of 700+ games & apps.
Best Wireless Headphones to Buy
Asish Das
There are a lot of wireless headphones on the market, and they come in all shapes and sizes, with different audio quality and features. In this article, we're breaking down the best wireless headphones on the market based on their price, performance, and durability.
We'll be taking a look at wireless headphones in every budget range, so whether you've got a few bucks to spare and want a great value product or you're looking for the absolute best of the best, we'll have an option for you.
Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700
Starting our list are the Bose noise-canceling headphones, our pick for the best noise-canceling wireless headphones.
If you're working in a noisy office or you just want to drown out the environment around you, then you'll want a pair of great noise-canceling headphones and Bose has just the right ones.
Priced under $400, the Bose noise-canceling headphones not only reduce outside sounds, but they're wireless as well. With a few features tossed in for good measure, these wireless headphones feature 11 separate levels of noise cancellation to customize the amount of sound you want to get in and out. This feature helps with voice calls by allowing you to adjust the level of noise cancellation so you can isolate your own voice from surrounding noise leading to better concentration.
If you're doing some late-night movie watching at high volume and don't want to disturb your family, these headphones will keep sound from spilling out and potentially waking them up.
The Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 headphones can even be paired with a Bose soundbar for a little extra convenience. the headphones can also handle voice commands from AI assistants like Alexa, thanks to a built-in microphone. Sound-wise, these Bose headphones offer excellent audio thanks to a wide sound space, good bass response, and pleasantly surprising clarity, which is an excellent plus for a pair of wireless headphones.
The battery life is limited compared to some of its rivals but still relatively enough at around 20 hours of use without needing a recharge. For a pair of headphones with stronger battery life, check out the Sony WH-1000XM3. Bose offers a great product with a surprising amount of noise cancellation options for those who want to listen to music, movies, and other media without any distraction.
Sony WH-1000XM3 is our pick for the best overall wireless headphones.
If you're after a set of balanced best overall wireless headphones, it can be really hard to narrow down a winner. The Sony WH-1000XM3 is a solid option for a price under $300 with a lot of features to offer the discerning listener. The WH-1000 includes some of the features of the Bose wireless headphones, including support for AI assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant, plus noise-canceling technology.
The Sony WH-1000XM3 does offer a few new surprises, however. One of these is the quick attention mode that allows you to cover the right ear cup and turn down your music without having to fumble for a volume knob or pause button. Touch controls also let you raise and lower volume, change tracks, or take calls by tapping the earphone, which is a nice touch. Sense Engine Technology also listens to the activity around you and automatically tweaks and balances audio, even during high altitude flights. These headphones are quite comfortable to wear, thanks to their ergonomic design and slim ear cups that reduce their overall weight and allows them to be worn for extended periods, which is great if you're on a long road trip or an overseas flight.
One of the best features, however, is the battery life, estimated at around 30 hours on a single charge. This is a step up from the Bose noise-canceling headphones by an extra 10 hours. If that weren't enough, a mere 10 minutes of charging time could net an astounding 5 hours of playback, which is great if you forgot to charge them up before heading out.
These Sony wireless headphones don't offer the same level of noise-canceling customization as the Bose headphones, nor are call quality is best, but these are minor drawbacks to an otherwise excellent set of cans. The Sony WH-1000XM3s blends great sound with a host of fantastic features that make them an excellent around contender.
Northside Solution Series 10 Wireless Earbuds
Next, we have the NS Series 10 wireless earbuds, our pick for the best budget wireless earbuds.
There are plenty of budget wireless earbuds on the market, but finding a standout can be tough, which is why the NS Series 10 wireless earbuds are such a treat for the discerning audiophile for a price under $50. Not only are they convenient but comfortable while providing excellent sound quality for a device at this price range. Newly released in early 2020, it's quickly becoming one of the top-rated earbuds on the market, and it's easy to see why.
CVC noise canceling helps to shut the outside world out when all you want to do is immerse yourself fully in your music. Each earbud can be paired with a different device in case you wish to break up its functionality for the testing of different products. These earbuds also feature a microphone for voice calls without the need for a separate microphone or smartphone. A simple three-light system helps identify the charge level of the left and right earbuds and the charging box so you can keep track of how much juice is left in each.
We have compared these two to AirPods Pro, and although the AirPods Pro was better in almost every way, they were a lot more similar than you might expect. The size of the cases are identical; the battery life was not far off; they were similar in comfortability and fit. The noise cancellation was much better on the AirPods Pro, but the sound quality was comparable to the point most non-hardcore music lovers will not notice much of a difference. Considering they cost a fifth of the price of the AirPods Pro, it's really easy to see there is a lot of like about them. For the price, they're very portable, provide excellent sound, great comfort, and a premium feel.
If you're looking for a budget earbud or just don't care to spend hundreds of extra dollars for a product that you may not use all the features on anyway, this is easily a top choice on the market.
Jabra Elite 85H
The Jabra Elite 85H is our pick for some great overall wireless headphones.
Unless you're an audiophile who is hip to the latest sonic technology, you may find it difficult to decide on a great pair of wireless headphones that sound good and sport great features.
The Jabra Elite 85H wireless headphones are a surefire contender with a price under $250. They're well-designed, feature-rich, and sound great with a few pleasant surprises tossed in as well. These noise-canceling headphones include smart sound and smart active noise-cancellation that work in tandem to automatically cancel out the environmental sound if things get too noisy while providing excellent sound and voice call quality. This is achieved by utilizing six of the eight built-in microphones to enhance the quality of your phone calls while gating out wind and other distracting noises.
The 85H also includes AI assistant integration for Alexa Siri and Google Assistant voice commands. The 85Hs are very warm and balanced out of the box with firm mids and low-end base that can be custom tailored within the Jabra Sound+ app for precise EQ. There's even a bass boost setting for those who want a bit more rumble even though the 85H can produce a bit of distortion with this setting on at higher volumes.
Battery life is the real star here offering the whopping 36 hours of playback on a single charge, which puts it ahead of others on our list like the Sony WH-1000XM3.
Although sound quality is fantastic, they're not quite up to par with Sony's. However, but they are priced more competitively. They also lack support for high-end audio codecs like AAC or LDAC, which can affect lossless playback.
The Jabra Elite 85H is well suited for those who simply want a great pair of cans and don't require absolute pitch perfection in their music. For this reason, there is a solid choice for anyone who might be unsure about which pair of headphones to pick.
The Apple AirPods Pro is our pick for the best wireless headphones for Apple users.
If you're active and on the go, then traditional headphones can present a major problem that is easily solved by buying a pair of great earbuds. For Apple users, the AirPods Pro is a top-notch option that eliminates the bulk of headphones for easier portability and convenience for a price under $250.
If you're an Apple iPhone user, the AirPods Pro are perfect companions and designed with that particular device in mind. They are compatible with the latest gen iPhones and are already tied into the Apple ecosystem for a no-fuss setup.
The AirPods Pro offers noise-canceling technology that can quickly toggle the transparency mode by long pressing on the stem. Other touch controls include single squeezing the stem to play music, double squeezing to advance to the next track or triple squeezing to skip backward to the previous track. This is a relatively simple and straightforward set of touch controls that Apple users will find instantly recognizable and intuitive.
Connection to an Apple device is a very simple affair provided you're on iOS 13.2 or later. A simple prompt allows you to instantly connect with the push of a button for a hassle-free setup.
Android and Windows users shouldn't fret either; the AirPods Pro is fully compatible with both ecosystems via a more traditional Bluetooth pairing system that can have you up and running in no time. The only real caveat of the AirPods Pro is Apple's insistence on having them charged via a lightning cable, which may be off-putting to many users who prefer a universal USB C interface.
Also, the stem design may not be to everyone's tastes, but they are meant to be functional, and the squeeze controls more than make up for the slightly divisive look. Few wireless earbuds are as well designed and robust as the AirPods Pro, and Apple users especially will love how seamlessly they integrate with their existing iPhones with great sound a match.
Best Budget Dash Cams Under $100
#1 Viofo A119 V3 : Best in Budget
The Viofo's A119V3 has the best combination of performance and features like excellent video quality, capacitors for reliability, useful error notifications, and backed by good customer service. It records at 1440P, which is a lot better than the most budget cams with 1080P recording.
The A119 loop records and auto starts when power is received. The box has everything is included to get you started. The installation of the camera requires no more than 10 minutes to complete. It requires no tools, just plug in the 12V car adapter, run the cable and stick the camera to your windshield. Almost all dash cams are installed like this.
If we compare the V3 to the 1080P ROAV A1 and the older A119V2, you can see the video quality is good overall. The videos have nice detail and clarity, so it does a good job of capturing important details like faces or license plates. It's vital if you experience road rage or get into a hit and run accident as you'll have a better chance to capture evidence for police to prosecute or insurance to get your money back.
At night the V3 has the best video quality right now. It's especially clear as the dynamic range has been increased, which means you can see a wider range of brightly lit and shadowed areas. Still, for all these advancements, no camera can capture fast-moving license plates at night It's the last major innovation that's needed.
The A119 uses capacitors instead of lithium-ion batteries that shut down the dashcam and save footage when your car turns off. Capacitors are much more heat-resistant and have a better lifespan.
The A119 has an important feature, which is useful error notifications. When the V3 has problems recording, you get a message telling you what's wrong, and it continuously beeps so you can check and fix the problem. That's important because all memory cards are slowly damaged when saving videos and eventually fail, causing your camera to stop working.
The V3 has good parked recording, which is a special energy and space-saving setting to capture vandalism or hit and runs while your car is turned off.
The V3 has two optional accessories, a $10 GPS mount and a $15 circular polarizer. The GPS mount lets you quick-release the camera without removing cables. It also tracks your location and position but doesn't give you navigation instructions.
The polarizing filter is worth the money. It reduces the glare from your dashboard and greatly improves clarity.
In picking the V3, we did a lot of research and compared similar cameras like Rexing's V1P, ROVE's R2, and Aukey's DR02J, but the A119 has the best overall combination of performance and features.
#2 ROAV A1 : The Cheapest
The ROAV A1 is our top cheap pick for its features and build quality. Compared to the Viofo V3, it does a few things better like WiFi for file transfers and nicer build quality. Unfortunately, with all the cheap cameras you'll have to compromise on something important, the A1 is no different.
The A1 is a rectangular camera with a 2.4" LCD on the back. It feels quite solid when pressed, and with its well-fitted, the A1 looks and feels like a premium camera. The dashcam is simple to use and a pleasure to browse through the menus. The ROAV A1 has WiFi, which lets you change settings and download saved videos.
The companion app is made well and easy to connect with your smartphone, unlike other cameras. ROAV has great reviews on both the app store and play store.
Where the ROAV A1 lacks is the 1080P video quality. There's a noticeable drop in sharpness during the day versus the 1440P A119. Details like license plates and faces are not as clear enough. Besides the video quality, the A1 lacks the audio error notification alerts and uses lithium-ion batteries, so it's not good in hot countries.
But you can't complain much as the video quality is quite good for the $50 price tag. In the last 2-3 years, truly awful video quality has mostly gone away. One big reason is the Sony image sensor found in the A1 has gone down in price, and many cheap cameras use it.
The A1 does an OK with the error notifications but not a good job. While it has a persistent warning message, there are no sound alerts when the A1 has problems recording. You have to look at the screen to take action, and with many who hide the camera behind the rearview mirror, it's easy to miss it.
The A1 uses lithium-ion batteries, which are susceptible to heat and in-general are more likely to fail than capacitors. In fact, with the ROAV C1 model, some users had a bulging battery that popped out the LCD screen. Fortunately, there's good customer service if there's a problem. ROAV is owned by Anker, and they have offices around the world with a more streamlined service.
The A1 has a special battery-powered parking mode. When the A1 shuts down, it can leave the G-Sensor active; after detecting an impact, it turns on after 6 seconds and records for 30. It won't capture the impact but, hopefully, get a license plate or face.
#3 BlueSkySea B1W : Compact Cam
The BlueSkySea B1W is a good choice for those who want a small and heat-resistant camera. It's the only one under $60 to get the basics right. The B1W's 1080P video quality is about the same as the ROAV A1 mentioned above. It comes with an 18-month warranty.
The B1W car camera video recorder uses dual supercapacitors instead of a lithium battery, which is a safer and more reliable choice to operate in hot environments. The error notifications on the BlueSkySea B1W are good with an endless audio message letting you know what the problem is.
The B1W dashcam has the WiFi function that can connect to view footage, download videos, and change settings via an APP on both iPhone or Android.
The BlueSkySea B1W has the parking mode functionality, which gets triggered by the G-sensor. When an impact is detected by the G-sensor, the camera starts video recording 30 seconds automatically.
Best Noise-canceling Headphones
It's pretty hard to notice a person without headphones while commuting or on an airplane nowadays. If you want the best isolation from the engine sound, crowd noises, and storms, you have to opt for a pair of noise-canceling headphones.
Here's a list of ANC headphones we have tested and compared. We have considered the price, quality, and durability.
Sennheiser HD 4.50 BTNC
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If you know Sennheiser, you know the excellent sound quality this company delivers in all of its products. The Sennheiser HD 4.50 BTNC is one of the best in the market in terms of price vs. performance. These headphones are pretty affordable but deliver so much for their price, including great battery life, solid design, and comfort.
The Sennheiser HD 4.50s are lightweight, which translates to enhanced comfort. Thanks to the plastic bodies, the headphones only weigh about just 238 grams in total.
The sound quality in the 4.50 BTNC is excellent, just like any other Sennheiser headphones. The sound signature is neutral, balanced, and the bass is pretty deep and punchy without overpowering the ranges. The mids are clear, and we were impressed with the highs as well.
The active noise cancelation (ANC) performance is impressive in the Sennheiser 4.50. It works super solid at blocking all wind and motor noises but struggles a little with crowd noises, which is acceptable at this price.
These headphones last about 19 hours with the active noise-cancelation on, and by turning it off, you get an extra six hours. It's decent considering that the more expensive top-of-the-line models are claiming up to 20 hours of use.
The Jabra Elite 85h is the latest addition to the Jabra lineup as the company's first true ANC headphones to take on the likes of Sony and foes. With industry-leading battery life, an eight microphone setup for crystal clear phone calls, and enhanced ANC performance and artificial intelligence for audio that automatically adjusts your surroundings, these certainly have the potential to be the new best ANC headphones on the market.
The 85h has three noise-canceling modes, ANC On, Off, and HearThrough, which uses the headphone's microphones to amplify the external noise and lets you hear your surroundings.
The Jabra Elite 85h is fully compatible with the Sound+ app, so of course, you have access to all of the music and phonecall customizations. You can use a voice assistant, either Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant, to control the headphones.
When it comes to battery, this is where the 85h shines with truly one of the best battery life for any ANC headphones out there. With noise-canceling turned on Jabra claiming a huge 36 hours of playback and 41 hours with ANC off. You can track the headphones battery on both iOS and Android but more precisely using the Jabra Sound+ app.
What is noise-cancellation?
Headphones like the AirPods Pro, Sony 1000 MX3, or the Bose QC 35 are the ones you generally see people using around and especially on flights.
Part of the reason for this, especially on flights, is the fact that all of them have active noise-canceling or ANC for short. But what is noise-canceling? How does it work? And why should you go for ANC headphones?
Firstly, there are two types of noise-canceling. There's passive noise canceling and active noise canceling.
Passive noise cancellation is just the act of soundproofing something. In headphones, this pertains to things like designing of the earbud to fit snugly enough into the ear canal as to block sound from the outside world.
This type of noise-canceling, sometimes called noise isolation, does help with removing noise from surroundings and also doesn't require any power to function.
Active noise canceling like that found in headphones is a microphone on the outside of the headphones to measure the ambient sound and take note of the sound amplitude and frequency.
Then the processor and the software in the headphones create a waveform of its own with the exact same amplitude and frequency but is 180 degrees out of phase, creating the exact opposite looking waveform. This then essentially creates silence for those sound.
It works because of a phenomenon in sound waves that when two sound waves interact with one another, they create interference with each other. The individual waves add together to create a new waveform with the sum of both being the new amplitude. Thanks to a concept called destructive interference, the peak of one wave is the exact opposite of the valley of the other wave. They combine and negate each other giving us an amplitude of zero, aka silence.
Now regardless of the theory, you can get very different qualities of the noise cancellation based on a number of factors, including the ambient noise itself, the algorithm the company is using to do the cancelation, the speakers, etc. So just keep in mind that not all noise cancellation is created equally, and its best to try it out first on the headphones that you ultimately decide to buy.
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For the second time around, yours truly Runner Rocky took part in the coolest fun run in Asia letting the runners run to the beat of music, the second edition edition of The Music Run™ by Philam Vitality. But this time, I've ran and enjoyed the event together with my very own running and events team, the Team Runner Rocky.
Today, let me showcase to you the five stations, the five zones of the fun run representing the five music genres. It started rocking the runners and ending with a dance to the beat of the party music!
You may also check out our personal photos documenting our journey now posted in our official Facebook Fanpage via this link: The Music Run 2016 Team Runner Rocky Album.
The second edition of The Music Run by Philam Vitality took place in the McKinley West Park, BGC Taguig, December 3, 2016. The first Music Run in Manila last year happened in the country's largest arena, the Philippine Arena in Bocaue Bulacan.


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Fleet Search and Selection is a professional recruitment consultancy in the Financial Services industry. We specialise in Contingency and Executive Search for the Internal Audit, Wealth Management, and Technology sectors, with offices in London and Edinburgh.
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Mehtap Baydu works with the artistic forms of expression sculpture, performance and photography. She uses these in order to reflect social structures of multi-cultural society. Topics such as politics and religion are necessarily touched on during artistic confrontation with cultures. The works can be understood as an attempt at comprehensively considering perceived roles and societal norms, culture and space. Baydu's photographs render processes visible.
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Environmental care, health and safety are essential elements of Campine's policy. They express our mission statement commitment to sustainable management. Campine has invested significantly in SHE (Safety, Health and Environment) related projects.
We apply the best available technology and procedures to anticipate to future legislation and endorse lean management and total quality care concepts.
The new operating permit that Campine received in 2011 stresses the confidence of the Flemish authorities in our shown responsibility. This enables Campine, as a Seveso company, to continue its activities for the next 20 years until 2031.
Campine considers regulatory matters as an opportunity to better position our product portfolio and to demonstrate our professionalism in the field of product traceability and risk prevention.
The SHE (Safety, Health and Environment) teams within each unit guarantees a close daily follow up and implementation of the regulations.
Campine is a production and recycling company that continuously works towards a better and environmentally conscious image. The environmental impact of our processes and our products is kept as low as possible and is among the best in the sector.
Campine is – in its business and with its expertise – a partner for the Government and is looking – through a constructive dialogue – for sustainable solutions to limit the environmental impact of its products and processes.
We meet – in all circumstances – the applicable legal and other agreements regarding environment and product safety. We communicate about this open with all our stakeholders.
5. The environmental policy of Campine, together with the safety and quality policy, is part of an integrated management system. Campine is ISO14001 certified. Environmental care is for everyone a part of his/her job. We promote environmental awareness among employees and subcontractors through sensitisation, training, instructions and the appropriate resources.
Sustainable relation with neighbours: participation project in consultation with the neighbours and the Government "working together for a healthier environment and society in Industrial zone Canal West in Beerse.
Sustainable relation with environment: by using performing purification techniques, only a minimum emission of dust, SO2 and purified waste water.
Sustainable nature conservation: Campine possesses over 25 ha nature land (with nature management plan) and works together with the Ecology Agency by means of a management agreement. The nature land is accessible through public hiking trails.
To restore the original moorland, a large portion of the top layer plate was removed to enable old seeds to germinate again.
In the area, hiking trails that are accessible to the public were created.
An info and resting space was developed at one of the entrances to the area (Kwikstraat).
The fence around the nature land allows that the terrain is grazed on an ecological way by Galloway cattle and Konik horses.
Construction of sustainable bat habitation.
Construction of meres and pools for frogs and great crested newts.
Also on the industrial premises Campine performs a sustainable conservation.
For example, in July 2011 a platform with nest box for Peregrine Falcon was posted at an altitude of almost 50 metres on one of the chimneys of the company. The nest platform was designed and installed by Campine NV in cooperation with a number of partners: metal construction company I.T.A., PDM engineering, the crane firms Michielsen and Leemans, the Fund for conservation of birds of prey (FIR) and the Ecology Agency.
Since early April 2014 our nest box is inhabited by a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons.
The area and buffer zones are evaluated by means of a biodiversity scan (via a management plan) to maintain or further develop valuable vegetation.
Campine has its own water purification installation in which rain, process and waste water are treated so that heavy metals (such as lead and antimony) are removed. Our water buffer basin prevents an overflow of the purification unit in case of heavy rain fall.
Major part of the purified water is used to sprinkle and cool.
A small part of the purified water is being discharged. The current discharged quantity represents only 1/5 or 20% of the volume of 2000.
This resulted in a spectacular drop of our "dirt mass" discharged Sb and Pb which lies far below the permitted quantity.
Continuous investments lead to further lowering emissions, resulting in lower dust on the premises and in the vicinity. This is being monitored by an own measuring network of dust deposit fallout collectors (NILU).
Dust released during the processes is collected in filters, controlled by means of 'dust monitoring'.
Locations subject to dust are constantly kept wet.
The premises are cleaned on a daily basis.
When treating dusty products, a mobile spray gun is used.
Remediation of the historic deponies for slags (1996 – 2000) and monitoring of the ground water.
Remediation industrial premises (continuously at infrastructural works).
Remediation gardens Kwikstraat and Nijverheidsstraat (2011).
Remediation underwater soil and banks of the Diepteloop (2012).
By a thorough waste separation, a new internal collection logistic and the establishment of a central container park, our waste is recycled as much as possible. Our recycling possibilities ensure that lead and antimony from various internal and external waste streams are reused as much as possible.
Environmentally oriented actions include energy-saving measures, which reduce Campine's energy consumption.


So it snowed again here in Boston today, which apparently it's going to be doing FOREVER. There seemed to be about 6" on my car roof when I got out to it this afternoon, though perhaps only 4" or so at home, hard to tell. This time it was a fluffy but wet snow, easy to walk in. So I put the harness on Emily to take her out again... and decided that photographic evidence was in order this time.
Examining crevasses in the snow!
Convinced that if she just licks it enough, she can get that damned harness to come off!
ADVENTURE CAT has had enough. It's time to go back inside now.
Another thing that Emily likes to do, which I got photographic evidence of last night, is: watch television. The way she usually sits in my lap, it's hard to tell if she's really watching the tv or not because all I see is the back of her head. But! If there are BIRDS on the tv screen, well then -- she needs to get over REALLY CLOSE to them and watch them AVIDLY.
I love this pic because you can clearly see the two ravens doing that "dominance ears" thing that they do!
Sometimes, if the birds are fluttery enough, Emily will sit up on her hind legs like a squirrel, or she'll even get up to put her paws on the screen. She didn't do that last night, though. I think the ravens were too big for that.
You got 6 inches up there? Really? Wow. We just had some snow squalls and a dusting down here today, but we're still dealing with the ice from the weekend.


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About UsAdministration and GovernancePolicies & ProceduresHIPAA Privacy Policies, Procedures & Training HIPAA FAQ
HIPAA FAQ
HIPAA Privacy Policies & Procedures
HIPAA Online Training
Q. WHAT IS HIPAA?
A. HIPAA stands for "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996". It is a set of federal rules designed in part to protect the privacy of a person's health care information.
Q. WHEN DID HIPAA TAKE EFFECT?
A. Privacy, the first HIPAA Rule, went into effect on April 14, 2003. More Rules were phased in over time. The Security Rule is the latest one. It took effect on April 20, 2005.
Q. WHAT DOES HIPAA'S PRIVACY RULE DO?
A. The Privacy Rule sets standards to protect health care information. Specifically, it regulates health care information that can be linked with a person.
Health care information is any data relating to a person's past, present, or future health, or the payment for health care. Health care information linked with personal identifying information is called Protected Health Information (PHI).
Q. WHAT IS PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION?
A. Name, address, birth date, social security number, and medical record number are personal identifiers. So are phone number, fax number, e-mail address, and health plan beneficiary number.
Q. DO HIPAA RULES APPLY TO HEALTH INFORMATION CONTAINING NO PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS?
A. No. Removing all personal identifiers from PHI makes it "de-identified". De-identified health data is not governed by HIPAA.
Q. DOES IT MATTER WHAT FORM PHI IS IN?
A. No. The Privacy Rule applies to PHI in any form. This includes computer and paper files, x-rays, physician appointment schedules, medical bills, dictated notes, conversations and more.
Q. DO MARYLAND'S CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY LAWS STILL APPLY?
A. Yes. Maryland's laws protect the confidentiality and privacy of patient health information. Most of these laws are set out in Title 4 of the Health Occupations Article of the Maryland Code (http://mlis.state.md.us). To the extent Maryland law is more stringent than HIPAA Rules, Maryland law applies.
Q. WHAT DOES THE PRIVACY RULE DEMAND?
A. The Privacy Rule limits use and disclosure of PHI to the "minimum necessary." It also demands that "reasonable" safeguards be taken to prevent improper use or disclosure of PHI. The Rule imposes civil and criminal sanctions for non-compliance.
Q. WHAT IS "USE"?
A. "Use" is sharing PHI with others to perform treatment, payment or health care operations (TPO). Use should be kept to the "minimum necessary." However, broad use is granted for treatment purposes. PHI may also be used for certain "public purposes" (e.g. law enforcement, public health, or courts).
Patients can authorize the use of their PHI for research. Alternatively, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) may waive patient authorization for access PHI for certain research activities. Patients can authorize use of their PHI for marketing, fundraising or other specific purposes.
Q. WHAT IS "DISCLOSURE"?
A. "Disclosure" means giving PHI to others for reasons other than TPO. Disclosures also must be kept to the minimum necessary. HIPAA gives patients the right to know who received a copy of their PHI. Unlike "uses", HIPAA mandates an accounting for all disclosures.
Q. WHAT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY UNDER THE PRIVACY RULE?
A. Your job is to make reasonable efforts to limit the use and disclosure of PHI to the minimum necessary to accomplish the task. HIPAA imposes civil and criminal sanctions for non-compliance.
Q. WHAT DOES HIPAA PROHIBIT?
A. Use or disclosure of PHI is prohibited unless it is authorized by the patient, permitted by law or granted through an IRB waiver. HIPAA prohibits leaving PHI in public view. Discarding unneeded medical records in the trash (as opposed to shredding them) is a HIPAA violation. So is giving out patient information without first confirming that the person receiving it is the patient.
Some uses and disclosures cannot reasonably be prevented. Conversations that might be overheard or PHI accidentally seen are examples. The key is to make reasonable efforts to limit incidental uses and disclosures.
Q. HOW IS HIPAA IMPLEMENTED AMONG OUR LEGAL ENTITIES – THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, FPI, AND THE PAs?
A. Under HIPAA, the School of Medicine, FPI, and the PAs formed an Organized Health Care Arrangement (OHCA). An OHCA allows efficient flow of PHI between the entities. Nevertheless, each entity remains responsible for complying with HIPAA. Designated HIPAA Officers in each entity oversee compliance and training.
Q. WHAT ABOUT THE HOSPITAL?
A. The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is not part of the School of Medicine/FPI/PAs OHCA. UMMC and the School of Medicine have formed their own Organized Health Care Arrangement (OHCA). Again, this helps improve the exchange of PHI among these entities.
Q. WHO DOES HIPAA AFFECT?
A. HIPAA affects everyone in SOM and in our OCHAs. HIPAA clearly applies to clinical operations. However, the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules may regulate access to and use of any HIPAA Protected Health Information (PHI) in research, marketing, fundraising, and other activities.
Medical researchers often rely on PHI. HIPAA insists that researchers get patient authorization and IRB approval before using or disclosing PHI. Our OHCA contains a number of non-profit institutions. Our patients are a primary audience for marketing and fundraising initiatives that benefit the School of Medicine and its departments. PHI is also used and disclosed when teaching medical and other health professions students. It is important to know when you are accessing PHI, and to be sure you have proper authorization to do so.
Anyone who works with or accesses PHI is affected by HIPAA even if they are not in our OHCAs. HIPAA Business Associates are outside individuals or firms to whom we give access to PHI. In return, they give us services. Business Aassociates are subject to many of HIPAA's requirements and must agree to HIPAA Business Associate terms and conditions by executing a Business Associate contract or agreement.
Q. WHAT ARE SOME RIGHTS HIPAA GIVES TO PATIENTS?
A. Patients have the right to:
Receive our Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP).
Access and copy medical billing records.
Request an amendment of PHI or other record.
An accounting for some disclosures.
Ask for restrictions on uses and disclosures of their PHI.
Request the use of alternate channels of communication of PHI (e.g. use a different telephone number, different address, etc.).
Complain to us or to the federal Department of Health and Human Services about a HIPAA violation.
Q. WHAT DOES THE SECURITY RULE DEMAND?
A. The HIPAA Security Rule sets safeguards for data systems and networks that store, process or transmit PHI. The Rule follows the best security practices used in industry and government.
Administrative safeguards include auditing computers for signs of misuse, reminding employees to follow security rules, and having a disaster recovery plan. Physical precautions include posting security guards at building entrances, logging off, and placing servers in locked rooms. Technical safeguards are measures such as using strong passwords and encrypting transmitted data.
Each entity's information technology group manages many of these safeguards.
Q. WHAT SECURITY MEASURES AM I RESPONSIBLE FOR?
A. There are several:
Pick complex log-in passwords
Use passwords on PDAs and other portable devices
Do NOT share computer log-in accounts
Do NOT share your log-in passwords, not even with your supervisor
If you must write down your passwords, keep them in a secure place
Use a screen saver that automatically locks or logs off after a period of inactivity
Q. DO HIPAA RULES APPLY WHEN I WORK OFF-CAMPUS?
A. Yes. Regardless of location, you must protect the security and privacy of PHI. When working from home, for example, use the same security precautions (anti-virus, software updates, password-protected screen saver, etc.) on your home computer as on your office computer. Do not let household members access PHI.
Q. DO I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT SUSPECTED SECURITY BREACHES?
A. Yes. Report suspected security breaches to your supervisor or department Security Liaison. Examples of security breaches include:
Sharing passwords or log-in accounts
Trying to guess another's log-in or password
Improper email activity (e.g., sending sensitive data insecurely)
Unusual computer behavior (e.g., very slow responses)
Unauthorized access to sensitive information
Q. HOW AND WHEN DO I RECEIVE HIPAA TRAINING?
A. You must take HIPAA training online at the School of Medicine's website. All employees, students, residents, fellows, volunteers and business associates of the School of Medicine, UPI, and the PAs must take this training as soon as possible. Many also must take specialized HIPAA training that focuses on their job duties.
Q. IF I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT PRIVACY OR SECURITY RULES, WHOM SHOULD I CONTACT?
A. We hope that our HIPAA training will answer most questions. More detailed descriptions of our HIPAA policies. (Can only be viewed on campus.)
The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services offers excellent guidance on the HIPAA Rules.
For University of Maryland Faculty Physicians Inc. (FPI) and the clinical practices, please contact the FPI HIPAA Privacy Hotline 667-214-1200 or FPIHIPAAPRIVACY@fpi.umaryland.edu.
For questions related to IRB protocol submissions and/or consent forms, please contact the Human Research Protection Office, ext 6-5037.


TSW, in collaboration with Wilson Miller of Naples, Florida, was commissioned to prepare a master plan for the remaining 2,200 acres of Playa Conchal, a resort community on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Prior development included the 308-room Melia Conchal Hotel, an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones, Jr. championship golf course, a casino and conference center.
Based on extensive market research and site reconnaissance of this rugged property (on foot and on horseback), the design team identified three separate development opportunities: a Resort Village, oriented to the beach and adjacent to the existing hotel: an Active Adult Village, segregated from the resort and beach by a pronounced ridgeline; and a Traditional Costa Rican Village, to serve the local and employee housing market.
Multiple master plan scenarios were tested to optimize the relationships between these village components and satisfy rigorous phasing requirements. TSW also provided conceptual architectural design guidelines, illustrated in a series of perspective sketches.


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Exit subject to tax clause in tax treaty Belgium - The Netherlands
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Exit subject to tax clause
Double tax treaties aim at avoiding double taxation through specific rules on the allocation of taxing rights. In other words, the tax treaty determines which country can tax certain items of income and how double taxation is avoided. If the taxation rights are attributed to one country (the 'host country'), the other (the 'home country' or residence country) must generally grant an exemption.
Three categories of tax treaties
Basically there are 3 types of exemption requirements: those that grant an exemption in the home country when the income is
'taxable' in the host country
'taxed'
'effectively taxed'
Taxable means that according to the double tax treaty the income is taxable in the host country irrespective of whether or not and how the host country exercises its taxing rights.
Taxed means that the income must be included in the taxable income in the host country where it is subject to its tax regime. This can be an effective taxation but also an exemption following deductions, reductions, ….
Effectively taxed means that tax must effectively be paid in the host country.
Double tax treaty Belgium – the Netherlands
Although article 23 of the double tax treaty uses the term 'taxed', the Belgian tax administration has always been of the opinion that In this specific tax treaty, the term 'taxed' should be interpreted as 'effectively taxed'. This was explicitly mentioned in a Circular letter of the Belgian tax administration from 2006.
Decision of the Supreme Court of January 25, 2018
The Belgian Supreme Court (Court de Cassation) countered now the interpretation of the Belgian tax administration. This means that when a Belgian resident receives Dutch source income that can be taxed in the Netherlands according to the tax treaty, Belgium in any case must grant an exemption even when there is actually no tax due in the Netherlands.
One example is the redemption of a pension built up within the company in The Netherlands by a Belgian tax resident before the date the pension takes effect. The scope is however broader than this.
Of course, for professional income received by Belgian individuals the exemption with progression remains intact. This means that notwithstanding the exemption, Belgium can take the exempt income into account to determine the tax rate on the other taxable income in Belgium.
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Rudaux Award
The Lucien Rudaux Memorial Gallery
In the winter of 2000, the IAAA created a "Hall of Fame" into which celebrated masters of the genré of Space Art would be inducted. Selecting a name to represent this distinguished and prestigious honor, in recognition and in acknowledgement for lifetime contributions to Astronomical Art, the IAAA instituted the Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award. Presented initially, and posthumously, to: Lucien Rudaux himself, Chesley Bonestell and Ludek Pesek and also to the artistic legends: Robert T. McCall, Jack Coggins, and Frederick C. Durant III.
Lucien Rudaux 1874-1947
Lucien Rudaux was, first and foremost, an astronomer and became director of the observatory at Donville, Normandy. He also wrote and illustrated his own books, such as the sought-after classic Sur les autres mondes. Through his telescope, he observed the "limb" of the Moon, where its battered surface is seen in profile against the black sky. While other artists showed lunar mountains as being steep, jagged peaks, Rudaux painted them as rounded and eroded—not by the elements but by eons of impacts by meteorites, extremes of temperature and electrostatic levitation of the dust. His paintings often resemble Apollo photographs, yet they were produced far before anyone ever went to the Moon. A crater on Mars has been named after him.
Chesley Bonestell 1888-1986
Chesley Bonestell, architect, artist, astronomer and known as the "Father of Modern Space Art" was born January 1, 1888 in San Francisco, California. He studied architecture and worked on major structures, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Chrysler Tower. He has had three successful careers in art; the best is the one he commenced in 1944, as an artist/illustrator of space flight and astronomical subjects.
His background in astronomy began when at ten he read Laplace's nebular hypothesis. After World War I he worked as a special artist on the Illustrated London News and on London evening papers. In 1938, he began a second career as a motion picture special effects artist. Within a few years his unique skill in creating realistic scenes made him the most sought-after matte artist in Hollywood. Working on such pictures as War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, and Destination Moon, Bonestell refined his space painting techniques. He says: "As my knowledge of the technical side of the motion picture industry broadened, I realized I could apply camera angles as used in the motion pictures studio and illustrate 'travel' from satellite to satellite, showing Saturn exactly as it would look".
Nearly forty years ago he entered his best known career; illustrating astronomical scenes and space flight. During the next decade he created some of his most compelling works: illustrations of manned visits to the Moon and planets. This was a decade before there were national programs for large rockets and satellite flight. It was a time when space flight was the dream of a few enthusiasts, certainly before the subject was professionally acceptable – or even respectable.
Bonestell's ground breaking space illustrations appeared in major publications including: Life, Coronet, Collier's, Scientific American, and Astounding Science Fiction. He began collaborating with Willy Ley, the author of the classic Rockets, Missiles and Men in Space. Ley and Bonestell produced The Conquest of Space and Beyond the Solar System. Teaming up with Wernher von Braun and others, they brought out Conquest of the Moon. and Arthur C. Clarke and Bonestell toured the planets in Beyond Jupiter.
Chesley Bonestell's deep interest in, and knowledge of, astronomy served him well in his depictions of our Solar System. His training in architecture enabled him to render accurate perspective and visual angles. His work is a beacon to all who live and work in the world of space; whether painting it or building it. An asteroid has been named after him.
Ludek Pesek 1919-1999
Ludek Pesek was born in Czechoslovakia and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He became interested in astronomy and Space Art at the age of 19, inspired by a telescope at school and a book by Lucien Rudaux. He first produced his own work at that time, and his first publications were The Moon and Planets and Our Planet Earth. He thought of himself as both illustrator and fine artist. His work first reached US readers through National Geographic Magazine. Previous to the Mars article he had painted 15 scenes for an article called Journey to the Planets . In 1967 Ludek wrote his first science-fiction novel, Log of a Moon Expedition which he illustrated in black and white. Another, The Earth Is Near won Prize of Honour in Germany in 1971. It was published in the UK and USA in 1974. He illustrated Space Shuttles in 1976. He worked with writer Peter Ryan on several slim books for children: Journey to the Planets, Planet Earth, The Ocean World and UFOs and Other Worlds; he later worked with the same author on the large-format Solar System. He also illustrated the excellent Bildatlas des Sonnensystems, with German text by Bruno Stanek. From 1981 to 1985 he produced a series of 35 paintings on The Planet Mars and a series of 50 paintings, He has produced several 360-degree panoramas for projection in the domes of planetariums at Stuttgart, Winnipeg and Lucerne, and has exhibited in Washington, DC, Boston, Nashville, Stuttgart, Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, and other venues. His work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
Robert McCall 1919-2010
Robert T. (Bob) McCall was born in 1919. His training included studies at the Columbus School of Art and Design and the Art Institute in Chicago in the late 1930s.
During World War II, McCall enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a bombardier instructor. After the war, he and his wife, artist Louise McCall, moved to Chicago and later New York, where he worked as an advertising illustrator. Through the Society of Illustrators, McCall was invited to produce paintings for the U.S. Air Force.
His bold, colorful canvases depict the visions of America's space program since its beginnings. In the early 1960s, McCall was one of the first artists selected for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Fine Arts Program after producing future space concepts for Life magazine. This connection led to a number of patch designs for space missions, a U.S. Postal Service commemorative stamp set, and murals at NASA field centers. Several astronauts include his artwork in their collections.
McCall's most visible work is a six-story mural in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., which is seen by over six million visitors annually. His most widely recognized work is the painting of a massive double-ringed space station for the Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Jack Coggins
Jack Coggins was born in London and came to the United States while still a child. After studying at the Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students League in New York, he devoted most of his time to marine painting. During World War II he did many illustrations for Life magazine, as well as many commercial clients. From 1943 until the end of the war he served as a U.S. Army correspondent in Europe. Then, in the 1950s, he executed covers for science-fiction magazines, most notably Galaxy and Fantasy and Science Fiction. In 1951 and 1952, Coggins collaborated with the late Fletcher Pratt on two classic books, Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships and By Spaceship to the Moon . The books were released amidst the great wave of national interest in space travel that swept the country in the 1950s. Like the Collier's magazine series on space travel, the two books made the prospect of space exploration seem a very practical possibility, and there are many space scientists today who retain fond memories of the influence these books had on their careers.
Frederick C. Durant III
Frederick C. Durant III was heavily involved in rocketry in the United States during the period between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s. He worked for several different aerospace organizations, including Bell Aircraft Corp.; Everett Research Lab; the Naval Air Rocket Test Station; and the Maynard Ordnance Test Station. In addition, he was an officer in several spaceflight organizations. These included President of the American Rocket Society, 1953; President of the International Astronautical Federation, 1953-1956 and Governor of the National Space Club in 1961. He later became the Director of Astronautics for the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, eventually becoming Assistant Director, where he was a significant leader in developing the museum and its art collection. He has co-authored two books on Chesley Bonestell with fellow Rudaux recipient Ron Miller.
David A. Hardy, FIAAA
David A. Hardy was born in 1936. He first began working in Space Art in 1950 and illustrated his first book for Sir Patrick Moore in 1954. Many more collaborations with Moore would come over the years, the most recent being Futures: 50 Years in Space.
Other works were produced for books by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Dr. Carl Sagan; along with numerous illustrations for science and science fiction magazines. He has written a number of non-fiction books for adults and children and a novel: Aurora; A Child of Two Worlds. Mr. Hardy has been an inspiration to many IAAA artists, some of whom are Rudaux Award recipients. He is a Fellow, past President and current European Vice-President of the IAAA. An asteroid has been named after him.
Andrei Sokolov 1931-2007
Andrei Sokolov, who can be rightly called the dean of Russian Space Art, was an enormously prolific and influential artist. He was active for decades in promoting the recognition of Space Art both in his own country and abroad. Born in 1931, Sokolov studied art at the Moscow Architectural Institute and later became a member of the USSR Artist Union, where he was the chairman of the Cosmic Group. He held numerous exhibitions both in the former Soviet Union, Russia, and abroad, including the USA, Germany, Holland and Japan. His art work has been published in many American books and magazines, including Air & Space and in seven books of his own (some in collaboration with Alexei Leonov). He also co-authored In the Stream of Stars.
Dr. William K. Hartmann, FIAAA
Dr. William K. Hartmann, who is internationally known as a planetary scientist, an astronomical artist and a writer, discovered Space Art as a boy, through the articles, books and paintings of Chesley Bonestell. Born in 1939, his grandfather also being a painter, Bill produced his own first Space Art as a teenager. His publishing began in his thirties in articles and textbooks, as well as Ron Miller's Space Art, for which he also wrote the foreword. He has co-authored and co-illustrated, with Miller, astronomy books The Grand Tour, Out of the Cradle, Cycles of Fire and In the Stream of Stars. Hartmann has also written and illustrated numerous articles, produced two college textbooks in multiple editions and several novels. He continues to direct his creativity towards more international collaboration in Space Art so as to promote more general awareness of exploration as a mutually shared human adventure.
Don Davis, FIAAA
Donald E. Davis was born in 1952, and in 1968 began working for the US geological Survey's branch of Astrogeological Studies. Here he created maps showing the Moon's early development, and he has become an expert on impacts and cratering processes, producing many widely-used illustrations of these subjects. He has produced many book and magazine illustrations, including a series of books on the bodies of our Solar System for Facts on File. He worked at the Hansen Planetarium in Salt Lake City, and has moved from working in acrylics to digital art, including very advanced and highly realistic 3D work and animations.
A founding member and Fellow, Don has worked tirelessly for the IAAA for many years. He has attended a number of workshops, including the 1991 eclipse in Hawaii.
Ron Miller, FIAAA
Born in 1947, Ron Miller is a charter member of the IAAA, one of its first wave of IAAA Fellows, and has been a past member of its Board. He is co-author, with Bill Hartmann, of the well-known and acclaimed series of books: Grand Tour, Out of the Cradle, and Cycles of Fire. He also wrote Space Art (1978) and has co-authored two books on Chesley Bonestell with Frederick C. Durant III: Worlds Beyond: The Art of Chesley Bonestell andThe Art of Chesley Bonestell. He is currently producing a series of books, each on a separate planet or other solar system body. These are produced mainly using the computer program Terragen, as he has moved into 'CGI'.
Ron has attended a number of IAAA workshops, including the original Death Valley and Iceland in 1988, and was active in the so-called Soviet-American exchanges, culminating in the production of In the Stream of Stars.
Kim Poor, FIAAA
Kim was born in 1952. He became attracted to art through the early books by Chesley Bonestell and David A. Hardy's Challange of the Stars. He was also greatly influenced by films that contained Bonestell's work and television programs by Dr. Carl Sagan.
His's first Space Art publications came in the April 1981 issue of Discover magazine and later contributed to Dr. Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. Later in 1981 he produced a panorama for the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
By 1982 he was rounding up like-minded artists which lead to the 1983 formation of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. With this seed group of founding members, he helped organize and participate in the first traveling IAAA exhibition, Other Worlds. A few years later, the IAAA Steering Committee elected him the first President of the IAAA. Kim introduced Pulsar as the association's newsletter to keep members connected, informed and focused upon current events of the genre.
After the Johnson Space Center Workshop in 1987, Kim headed the American delegation to Moscow at the beginning of "Glasnost" and then to Iceland in the summer of 1988, which helped orchestrate the early IAAA-USSR interaction.
Kim initiated the first step to launch the IAAA onto a new direction, at the conclusion of the IAAA/USSR Iceland Workshop, by mandating the creation of a Board of Trustees to complete the transformation into a broadly based public educational and artistic non-profit corporation. Through this body, the IAAA negotiated a five year project involving the Cosmic Group of the USSR Union of Artists, the Planetary Society, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center with a new IAAA traveling exhibition Art of the Cosmos.
Kim's ambition included the wish to make Space Art a major art-form; and to help usher in that dream, he stepped down as president to launch his own company, NovaGraphics, to market fine art prints and posters. At the same time he created NovaSpace Gallery to further promote Space Art and artists of the genre.
Alexei Leonov
Born in 1934, Leonov graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy with honors in 1957. After serving in the Air Force, he joined the cosmonauts' group in 1960. In three space missions, he had accumulated a total of seven days in space. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and received the Order of Lenin. In 1965 as a true pioneer, space explorer/artist Alexei Leonov, was the co-pilot of Voskhod 2 and the first man to perform extra-vehicular activity (EVA), popularly known as to "walk in space".
As a keen amateur artist, he later painted his own self-portrait floating in space. In July 1975, he was the commander pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project where he presented the Apollo astronauts with a unique gift—a portrait of each of them as sketched by himself in space.
Leonov studied art at the Kharkov Higher School of Pilots and was a member of the USSR Artist Union and its Cosmic Group. He has been published in more than ten books, including children's books. Often he has collaborated with his friend Andrei Sokolov, the first, Wait for US, Stars and then Man and the Universe.
He took part in several IAAA workshops, the Icelandic Space Art Workshop in the summer of 1988, the Senezh workshop outside Moscow in the Spring of 1989 and lead the cosmic Group later that Fall to join the IAAA Workshop in the Arches National Park in Moab Utah, and finally the Fall 1990 IAAA Crimea Workshop. Early in the spring of 1990 he joined the IAAA delegation at the opening of the year long IAAA Art of the Cosmos Exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Leonov is unique among the cosmonaut/artists in that he took a few colored pencils and paper into space with him in order to create the first eyewitness sketches of the Earth from space.
Leonov states: "Space exploration and work in space must serve the people of the whole world. I've been in space, I've seen it and feel obligated to share my vision of space with people by means of art I have at my disposal."
Michael W. Carroll, FIAAA
Michael Carroll was born in San Diego, California in 1955. He graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
From about the mid 1970's, he began to focus more and more upon painting astronomical scenes and writing about space exploration. The hook began after having been mesmerized by Patrick Moore's and David A Hardy's book Challenge of the Stars. As an artist, Carroll's inspiration came from several directions intermixed with the likes of Corot, Monet, Salvador Dali, Bonestell, Edward Hopper and his father, an aerospace engineer.
His parents taught him a love of nature and, by extension, his passion for the cosmos which focused on the geology and exploration of planets in our solar system. Carroll's paintings and articles have appeared in numerous magazines throughout the world, including Time, Omni, Smithsonian, Harper's, Reader's Digest, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Ad Astra and The Planetary Report.
His paintings have appeared on Nova, Cosmos and other TV specials. His artwork appears in several books, including Comet(1985), Beyond Spaceship Earth (1987), Mars 1999 and Race to Mars (1988), to specifically mention a few. In addition to writing science articles, Carroll has ventured to write children's books. His versatility also produced 30 paintings for a major book, Vision of Revelation, which he co-authored with Jay E. Adams.
He is a founding member of the IAAA (1983) and the originator of the tradition of bringing orange food stuff–in this case circus peanuts–to the very first astronomical art workshop, which he organized.
In 1987, Carroll was one of seven American Space Artists invited to the Space Future Forum that marked the 30th Anniversary celebration of Sputnik I, where he participated with Soviet scientists and artists about upcoming missions to Mars.
He has continued to work diligently over the years to organize and encourage International cooperation between Russian, European and North American artists. In addition, he has participated in the NASA Fine Arts Program and, as a consequence, has given many lectures and classes relating to art and science, including presentations at the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center, where he was a freelance artist and artist consultant.
Ralph Andrew (R.A.) Smith 1905-1959
Ralph Andrew Smith, or R.A. Smith as he is more commonly known, was the defining vision for space hardware concepts coming from England, and was the primary artist for that great institution: the British Interplanetary Society. His paintings of space stations and moon ships stand out in their engineering savvy from most such visualizations of that era.
R.A. Smith passed on just two years after the first artificial Earth satellite had realized in hardware the ideas and drawings that he had worked on since before the War. He was second only to Chesley Bonestell in influencing the writer in publicizing the possibilities of spaceflight the 1950s; he illustrated several best-selling books by Arthur C. Clarke, including Interplanetary Flight, The Exploration of Space and The Exploration of the Moon. His work has also been collected by IAAA member Dr. Bob Parkinson in High Road to the Moon: From Imagination to Reality, published by the BIS in 1979, from which the following quote comes:
"The R.A.Smith pictures which form the basis of this book represent the most accurate visualizations of the concepts that they portray—at the time at which they were painted. The differences between them and later reality came about not through any failure of imagination, or artist's license, but because of the progress of understanding and technology in the meanwhile."
Smith painted only to commission, never for his own satisfaction, and rarely produced anything other than Space Art. His work for the UK publications: Picture Post and Illustrated and other European magazines were the equivalent of the US publications: Life and Colliers, and thus he was responsible for promoting a lot of interest in space travel, and space art, on his side of the Atlantic. He was, like Bonestell, an architect, but he was also an engineer, who designed satellites, the BIS ferry (shuttle) and lunar vehicles; a classic case of a fine artist teaming with experts in the field to create visions of what might be. His painting of a solar power station won an award by The Perspectivist magazine. He was thus a true first-generation space artist: his work was all his own. R.A. Smith is truly deserving of the IAAA Rudaux Award, which was presented to the British Interplanetary Society, who own the complete collection of some 140 paintings and drawings of his work.
Rick Sternbach, FIAAA
Rick was one of the IAAA's first three leaders, along with Kim Poor and David A. Hardy, and in later years, after the IAAA was established as a non-profit, served as an IAAA Trustee. He instigated and was editor of our original newsletter, Parallax, and returned to the Editor role of the updated IAAA newsletter, Pulsar. He also hosted the Death Valley III Workshop.
Rick was the senior illustrator/designer for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first two seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He was also the scenic artist for Star Trek: Nemesis.
Rick has received two Hugo Awards, has co-authored Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual and is the the author of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints.
He is also a noted contributor to the usernet newsgroup sci.space.history, and is an accepted expert on the various paint schemes used on the Saturn V booster. His company, Space Model Systems, is a leading provider of accurate decals for model kits of the Saturn V, as well as the Apollo Command Module. He produces accurate 3D relief models of various topography features found on other planets, such as Mars Valles Marineris, derived from height data collected by orbiting spacecraft.
Throughout the years, Rick has worked tirelessly to promote the genre of Space and Astronomical Art and the IAAA organization.


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America's Most Produced Plays
ByJustin Cash	Updated August 23, 2020 Industry
The Wall Street Journal recently reported America's most produced plays during the 2000s (ignoring Shakespeare revivals and seasonal shows). It seems the classics are out and new plays by mostly American authors are in (though one may argue this trend is nothing new). Here's the list:
1. "Proof," by David Auburn (54 productions).
2. "Doubt," by John Patrick Shanley (48 productions).
3. "Art," by Yasmina Reza (45 productions).
4. "The Drawer Boy," by Michael Healey (36 productions).
5. "Rabbit Hole," by David Lindsay-Abaire (33 productions).
6. "Wit," by Margaret Edson (29 productions).
7. "I Am My Own Wife," by Doug Wright (26 productions).
8. "Crowns," by Regina Taylor (26 productions).
9. "Intimate Apparel," by Lynn Nottage (25 productions).
10. (tie). "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams, and "The Laramie Project," by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project (23 productions each).
The article also noted the absence of well-known heavyweight playwrights such as Beckett, Brecht, Ionesco, Miller, Chekhov, Ibsen, O'Neill, Shaw and Odets on the list. The answer why may be in part due to the trend of producing small-cast productions for economic reasons, something most new plays today offer as par for the course.
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First experiment with HELIOS: The structure of B13
B. B. Back, Argonne National Laboratory
S. I. Baker, Argonne National Laboratory
B. A. Brown, Michigan State University
C. M. Deibel, Argonne National Laboratory
S. J. Freeman, The University of Manchester
B. J. Digiovine, Argonne National Laboratory
C. R. Hoffman, Argonne National Laboratory
B. P. Kay, Argonne National Laboratory
H. Y. Lee, Argonne National Laboratory
J. C. Lighthall, Western Michigan University
S. T. Marley, Western Michigan University
R. C. Pardo, Argonne National Laboratory
K. E. Rehm, Argonne National Laboratory
J. P. Schiffer, Argonne National Laboratory
D. V. Shetty, Western Michigan University
A. W. Vann, Western Michigan University
J. Winkelbauer, Western Michigan University
A. H. Wuosmaa, Western Michigan University
A first experiment is reported that makes use of a new kind of spectrometer uniquely suited to the study of reactions with radioactive beams in inverse kinematics, the helical orbit spectrometer, HELIOS. The properties of some low-lying states in the neutron-rich N=8 nucleus B13 were studied with good resolution. From the measured angular distributions of the (d,p) reaction and the relative spectroscopic factors, spin and configuration assignments of the first- and third-excited states of this nucleus can be constrained. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
Back, B., Baker, S., Brown, B., Deibel, C., Freeman, S., Digiovine, B., Hoffman, C., Kay, B., Lee, H., Lighthall, J., Marley, S., Pardo, R., Rehm, K., Schiffer, J., Shetty, D., Vann, A., Winkelbauer, J., & Wuosmaa, A. (2010). First experiment with HELIOS: The structure of B13. Physical Review Letters, 104 (13) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.132501